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70 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries

Shows diary entries from seventy-one years ago, using today's date in Hong Kong as the starting point. To see pages from earlier dates (they go back to 1 Dec 1941), choose the date below and click the 'Apply' button.

  • 9 Jun 1944, R. E. Jones Wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2014-05-19 09:36
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    R. E. Jones Wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 9 Jun 1944

    Heavy storm early am. & showery all day.

    Paper keeps up the usual note re our hopeless efforts at trying to win the war, it seems that the word “annihilate” and its derivatives was coined in order to describe the fate  of the men opposed to the Axis.

    There are internees who still think we have another eighteen months to exist in this Camp that the Germans will still be fighting well into next year. Time alone will tell of course but I sincerely hope they are wrong.

    Result of Zindel’s visit negative re parcels & repatriation. Bran, beans & allowance to come. Black-out & Curfew orders more stringent.

    With Steve pm.

    4 Pkts. cigs issued.

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  • 09 Jun 1944, Eric MacNider's wartime diary

    Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2016-05-30 15:28
    Book / Document: 
    Eric MacNider's wartime diary
    Date(s) of events described: 
    Fri, 9 Jun 1944

    Letter from P.O.Ws in Japan posted outside C.S.O.

    B.O.

    ((Not clear where the following text belongs. Believe it is today)) Allotment of Y30,000 for distribution amongst internees in June.

    No further information about repatriation or parcels ex Teia Maru. P????? ((Unclear)) possibility of purchases in Macau, where prices are cheaper.


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